Travels in the World of Books Unknown - 2010

Hardback. Good.

Rare Books and Berry, Porlock, first edition, 2010. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. 256 pp, colour plates. ;Columns reprinted from: Bookdealer. From the blurb - "For the past three years Nick Smith has written a column for Bookdealer magazine that - despite his commission to cover the inner workings of the book trade - often drifted from the beaten track as he recorded his adventures as a photo- journalist on far-flung assignments. The result was the popular monthly ‘Travels in the World of Books', collected here in their entirety. Bored with wasting hours on end in airports, planes and hotels, he decided to catch up on his reacting, only to find that travel and literature go together like gin and tonic. The more geographically wide-ranging his adventures became, the more he rediscovered the works of great travel writers, classic novelists and immortal poets. Part travelogue, part literary criticism and sometimes simply gossip from the second-hand book trade, Nick Smith's Travels in the World… Leer más

Great Britain: Rare Books and Berry, 2010. Hardback. First Edition. Bored with wasting hours on end in airports, planes and hotels, he decided to catch up on his reading, only to find that travel and literature go together like gin and tonic. The more geographically wide-ranging his adventures became, the more he rediscovered the works of great travel writers, classic novelists and immortal poets. Part Travelogue, part literary criticism and sometimes simply gossip from the second-hand book trade. This book offers an insight into some of the remotest regions of the world through the eyes of the writers who went before him. 256 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback.